Latest News | Fire Breaks out in Siliguri Plastic Bottle Factory; No Casualty

Siliguri (WB), Apr 6 (PTI) A fire broke out in a plastic bottle manufacturing unit located in a congested area of Siliguri city in Darjeeling district on Thursday evening, a fire brigade official said here.

Also Read | RBI Decision To Keep Repo Rate Unchanged at 6.5% in Line With Expectations, Say Experts.

Also Read | Aadhaar Details Linking With Voter ID Card Yet To Start, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju Informs Rajya Sabha.

No casualty has been reported.

Four fire tenders fought for around an hour to bring the blaze under control.

The fire was noticed at around 4 pm when smoke started billowing out of the burning factory spreading panic in Thakurtala area close to the city's Eastern Bypass.

Godowns and several other small factories are located nearby.

Siliguri fire department official Ajit Ghosh said chemicals were kept in the bottle manufacturing factory and the blaze might have originated from those products.

(This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)